Jade Snow Dragon Mountain -- Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China
Me again. Back from hiding. It’s been a while since I’ve posted last…a month and a half about. Sorry, been like mega busy with personal projects. Like really fucking-too-busy-to-take-bathroom-breaks kind of busy. Right now it’s my 4th month as a full time Internet Marketer and I’m finally hitting my stride. With the 2010 Winter Olympics in my city right now, I’ve been a bit less productive because of the festivities going on (read, getting drunk with hot Olympic athletes in downtown Vancouver), but I’m pushing myself to work at least 12 hours a day.
I’m also (finally) taking a month and a half of (May 1 to June 15) to do a trip to Tibet/China. I’m going with some seriously expensive camera equipment on a photo tour of some of the most beautiful places in asia, so expect some nice new photos. Gotta supply you guys with new landscape photos. I’m also going to blog about doing Internet Marketing while traveling abroad (in asia). I’ll probably do so on a different blog to generate some support authority for this blog.
Anyways…back to topic.
I normally don’t give any sort of product review here unless the product actually has some merit. However, I’ve had quite a few people asking me whether Micro Niche Finder is any good. Last post I promised to see to investigate whether Micro Niche Finder is a scam by doing an experiment. So true to my word, I bought the program last month to test it out. I used it to do my keyword research for the month and built sites on those keywords.
What do I recommend? Here’s the one liner review: Fucking buy it.There, saved you from a 1000 words of reading.
So far, I’m really really liking this program. In fact, I’d say if you are serious about making money online, then you’ll want this tool. It really will help you save time. There’s a lot of software out in the IM world and most of it is complete fucking crap that you don’t need. I’ve only found a handful of what I call “essential” IM tools in a year of IM – tools that actually will help you make money online or save you a shit load of time that are worth ponying up the bucks for. Micro Niche Finder is one of them.
Why?
Because it makes keyword research a breeze. A note though: You still need to know HOW to do proper research – don’t think MFN will do this for you. If you know what to do, good you are ready to start finding those keywords. If you don’t have your keyword research down pat, MFN won’t save your ass and you won’t make money through niche marketing. This program is not some magic pill for the noobs.
Now, I want this clear as crystal: You don’t need MNF to make money online. If anyone or any website tells you this, it’s bullshit. I’ve made a good full time income WITHOUT using MNF and only using Google Keyword Tool and a few other IM tools for keyword research. What MNF will do is cut out a lot of the extra steps involved with keyword research and put all the essential keyword information into a nice, aggregated matix. If you want to make money with niche sites, you are going to need to put in a lot of work. I don’t want anyone thinking that using MNF will make you money online — it won’t. It saves a hell of a lot of time with the research though and makes it less tedious.
What I like about this program is that it really integrates the Google keyword tool in a more streamlined interface. There is a matrix that displays all the important keyword research information – CPC, traffic per month, trend chart, and exact phrase count. Like Google Keyword Tool, you enter a keyword to get the keyword information. But this program is like Google Keyword Tool on steroids.
What really makes this program great is that you can filter keywords out depending on your specific criteria, check to see if the exact domains are available with a single click (huge time saver and worth the 97 bucks JUST for this imho), add domains you want to buy to a list with a click (no need to write them down like I’ve been doing), and launch a Google search for that keyword to scope out the competition right from the program. The program also shows a Strength of Competition rating and Online Commercial Intention rating – two keyword research criteria that some internet marketers look at. There are also some other cool features like the ability to search clickbank, google products, or amazon for products that come up for that keyword.
A search for Midget Thongs using MNF!
The way I use this program is to do the basic keyword search but then apply a few custom filters to the keywords with my personal keyword research criteria, then cherry pick the keywords on the list that show potential. I then analyze the strength of the competition for those keywords. MNF let’s you easily click on the keyword in question to open a search in your browser for it.
If you are a rank noob to IM or you just don’t know how to do proper keyword research and have not been having any luck with making money online, you better learn or start handing out those resumes. I suggest giving Court’s Keyword Academy for the 1 buck trail month – probably the only honest make money online school out there – a shot. It will get you up to speed on how to do keyword research. Grizzly’s unofficial ebook, also gives you the guts and meat on doing keyword research as well. Yea, you have to pay something for these training programs, but you learn the real deal — unlike most of the crap you’ll find online.
If you are one of those “I’m too cheap to pay for anything types”, then you can crawl through my blog to find some of my strategies (though I don’t give the whole shabang like Court does), or troll through Grizzly’s 3 years of making money with adsense blog posts. Between all of the resources there, you can learn how to find those keywords that give you the best (and easiest) chance of making money.
So, I give Micro Niche Finder my full recommendations. If you can afford it, it’s the best 97 bucks you’re going to spend. If you can’t afford the cost, you can still make do with the ol’ Google Keyword Tool. But if you get serious about Making money online and you can pick up enough pennies on the side of the road, you will want to give MNF a buy.
Ok, enough blathering. What you really want to know is what was I able to do since the last post? Talk is cheap and I do like to provide some proof of my experiments. Here’s a list of the income my new Micro Niche Finder sites from the past 40 days – since my last post. I also tabulated the last 7 days earnings. The income is actually a bit off by a few bucks because not all channels were added, but oh well. Note that this is complete NEW experiment from my other adsense sniper project. I opened a brand new adsense account for these sites and I switched up my strategies completely, trying to test some new things.
Adsense total for the sites created using MNF the past 40 days (Jan to Feb 2)
Adsense total for the sites created using MNF the past 40 days (Feb 3 to Current)
MNF sites last 7 days Total
So there we go. All in all, not bad. It took me about a month and half to grow my income from 1 -2 bucks a day to the 40-50 USD a day range. I’m now seeing consistent 40+ days (the reports were off by a couple bucks a day since not all channels were added – i forget some), so it’s pretty safe to say that at the current revenue projection, these MNF sites will generate me (assuming no increases) between 1200-1500 USD a month. The plan is to get this new account to about 200-300 bucks a day then open another adsense account for a new project in a couple months. Now, I usually get a huge list of questions about how, and why, and such stuff. I keep the exact details of what I do private these days for obvious reasons. For the How’s, read my blog or my forum – I throw some of my strategies out there. But to fend off the questions that people ask, I can offer you a few pointers for generating a good adsense income.
- Test new niches constantly
- Backlinks. Backlinks. Backlinks.
- Optimize Adsense placement to increase CTR (can mean difference between .20 a day and 4 dollars a day with a site).
- Self hosted domains with keywords in the domain (forget blogger blogs or free blogs if you want to generate an income quickly and can’t get shedload of authority links)
- Good keyword research (you will absolutely fail without this)
- Spinning (this saves you a shitload of time when getting links if you do it right)
- Blackhat can be your friend (but be careful!)
- You (usually) need more than ezines, hubpages, infobarrel links to rank you high!
- Get links from as many different IP’s as possible
- Actually doing work online – not reading forums
- Work. Good old fashion work.
If you want results like I get guys, there is no magic bullet as I’ve been telling people for months. I work 12 to 16 hours a day. This is all I do – I live and breathe IM. Don’t put in a couple hours a week and thing you are going to take home a full time income in a couple months – try more like a year or three.
How long will it take for a full time income? This is the typical question people always ask. If you know EXACTLY what you are doing, I’d say 2 - 3 months of like 14-16 hour days. But keep in mind that to learn the “know exactly what you are doing” part it might take you six months of 6 hour days! And there are no guarantees here either. Some people stumble on all the right things right away and make money quickly. Other people need to learn the ropes the hard way and it can take them months or even years before they find the right path. I don’t want anyone quitting their job because they plan to make 100 bucks a day online in only 3 months because I said it’s possible. It’s possible in the way that it’s possible to run a marathon from Texas to New York, but you to “hone” yourself to the point where you can do that without having a heart attack. And that my friends can take a hell of a lot of training to get to that point. I’ve spent almost a year putting in full time hours doing IM. I’ve tried things that didn’t work, I’ve failed completely many many times, and had some success.I know that I spent a solid 3 months of full time work testing different strategies that did not directly increase my income. I’ve learned from my many mistakes and took what works and built on that.
So it takes patience and work and a bit of luck too before you find something that works. Once you do, you scale the hell out of it to make the big bucks. The most important thing you can do guys is to experiment! Don’t be afraid of trying new things. I see a LOT of people one the fence about trying strategies online because they might wast time on something that doesn’t work. But…what if it works. What if it REALLY works. And that’s what I do guys.
I notice that people also tend to jump on one IM fad for a month or two then seize on another. This is exactly how you will fail to make money. Stick to a single method until you make money. If you want to master adsense, do it. If you want to master amazon/ebay instead, focus only on making a full time income with these instead. You will find that a lot of “techniques” that work for say adsense won’t work for creating amazon mini sites, for example. This is why it’s better to stick with one method of making money until you really make it work before jumping on to something else. Do too many things and you are more likely to fail at all of them. Do only one thing and you’ll probably master it if you put in enough effort.
That’s it for today folks. I’ve got a solid 3000 word juicy post about how to hijack your competitor’s networks already written for out you guys. It’s going up in a week or so – so you won’t have to wait another month for a post 
I’ve got some more experiments coming up:
- Wordpress Mage — To be honest, I’m not convinced I can make money any faster with WP Mage than just creating a bunch of new websites with ebay integrated into wordpress. But we’ll see.
- Adsense vs. Amazon — I’m going to convert 100 sites that make money with adsense into Amazon sites and track which makes more money over 1-2 weeks. I’ll also track the income when you put both on.
- 60 .info domains + BCW content + chitika ads
Some further topics I’ll be making posts about the next couple months:
- How to test keyword CTR without ranking for the keyword
- How to increase search traffic without increasing rankings
- How to optimize Adsense to Maximize earnings
There we go guys. Work hard guys and make money online!
Ben
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Personally I will never buy MNF because I get most of my keywords from guessing what people are searching for. Also by writing lots of posts and seeing what sticks. Many of my keyword combos don’t even show up in the programs.
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admin Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:53 pm
MNF is not any better than Google Adsense Tool for “finding” new keywords. It’s the same thing really. What it is good for is streamlining the entire keyword research process. Everything you need is a click away. I spend an enormous amount of time doing research and this streamlined process saves me a lot of time. That saved time results in me also having more time to find keywords too.
If you find the keywords organically through your site, that’s a good way to do it and very effective — you find keywords not on the grid.
Best
Ben
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Welcome back, Ben! It’s impressive how fast you can build-up income….
One question ref spinning - do you use Magic Article Rewriter to get a lot of articles - are they accepted by the Article Directories? / What level of uniqueness they have?
Cheers!
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Darrell Reply:
February 21st, 2010 at 8:30 am
I ordered my Magic Article Rewriter via Ben’s affiliate link and I can honestly say its a very good product. The control panel is user friendly and you can literally be re-writing content within 10 to 15 minutes after watching Alex’s video.
But the other test I did prior to buying this product was to see how Alexander did on his support. I had bought a previous product with zero support and it was a disaster. I sent him 2 emails and within about 4 to 6 hours both times, he responded. I have had other correspondence with Alexander and he usually respondes within 6 hours or so. Plus, he is constantly upgrading his software and so far within 1 month, he has updated his 2 main products.
Many article directories will accept spun content if you are smart about it. Press 2 buttons and you can usually get it up to 20 to 30% right away. Do some additional manual re-writing and you are good to go. The only one that will always give you some grief if any would be Ezine Articles as they are anal about everything.
You want at least 30% or greater spun is the best estimate out there and you should be fine. Although the higher the better. One thing you can do is combine multiple articles together. Like the first paragraphs of say 10 articles, 2nd paragraphs in the same category. Yes, it does take some extra time doing it that way, but you will also have alot more articles to post around. I have posted my content to Go Articles and Idea marketers and others without isssue. It will always come back to how they approve your articles. If manual, just be more aware and try for higher spun percentages.
I average very high spun percentages like in the 90% and above, but I invest more time upfront when setting up the content because I know when I do that, I will have many more hundreds of articles to use all over the place. But’s that me.
Hope that helps you Carlo and he offers a 90 money back guarantee which is well above the other article spinners out there.
Great picture Ben and thanks for the update.
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carlo Reply:
February 21st, 2010 at 12:48 pm
wow! this is very comprehensive and helpful
I guess it is a great perspective also for the other people interested in the topic and it shows we have a cool community here :p
so I will take it and try to follow the advice….when you say combine several articles, you mean take different phrases from the first paragraph of 10 articles in order to achieve a better spun %, or something else? in how much time do you manage to have a 500 words article spinned to 70-90%? Are you using it together with Magic Article Submitter?
and one final question
Have used this to provide content for a network of support sites - how? Post spun versions of same article on each support site?
Thanks!!
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Darrell Reply:
February 21st, 2010 at 8:43 pm
OK Carlo, last comments from me on this software.
Yes, I combine the introductory paragraphs together in a notepad, I combine the 2nd paragraphs together and so on. I create a list of tips and ideas that are generic enough and of course concluding paragraphs.
Not sure what you mean by how much time as that is a variable I can’t answer. It might take you 1 hr , 5 hours or 15 hours to combine, create synonyms for multiple keywords, phrases and sentences or longer depending on how many articles you combine. Once done, its takes seconds from the program which is really cool.
I finished up 1 project combining over 40 to 50 articles that took like a week to do. But I have massive amount of content I can now use. Again, depends on which niche and purpose. Start off with 1 article and then try that out, then gradually increase it if need be.
Yes, Carlo, I bought all 3 products, Magic Article Re-writer and Magic Article Submitter for $80 combo deal and then bought his Magic Tokens database for $37 - that’s also cool and its keep growing.
Yes, working on my support sites literally as I am writing these comments. Well, since my content is in the high 80 to 90% plus spun range, I don’t have that issue for duplicate content and have like 20,000 plus articles to use now.
So I am thinking that will last me awhile
To G those articles won’t look or be the same and are well above the filters. But I am careful and will change things up anyways. Randomly submit other stuff to each support site once in awhile.
If you want to know more, go to youtube and type in magic article rewriter to see it in action.
P.S. ** Ben doesn’t give bullshit advice and has been up front with us on what he uses, so I will buy stuff via his link because I trust him.
Just remember, you can have all the software, but it still comes down to actually doing the work. Ok enough said and no more time to answer questions. Back to work for me.
Cheers
carlo Reply:
February 21st, 2010 at 11:41 pm
Great! Thanks alot, man
I will buy i of course through Ben’s link!
Hey Ben,
I love your site and you show all the time that you can make good income with adsense pretty quickly.
How many pages where your micro niche finder site?
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Ben - I think I’ll need another Adsense account soon but beside asking a friend or family member to sign up for Adsense…how do you get another Adsense account?
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admin Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:57 pm
You need to create corporation. I’m in canada so I can’t guide you on the process in the states. But you do need to create an LLC corporatation (also called a business identity), then you need to create a new business bank account in the LLC corps name. This is the name you sign up for your new adsense account with — the money will be paid to the LLC corp. And it follows that you want to use different IP’s, email addresses, and addresses (use a relatives or pay for a PO Box) for the adsense account. Don’t cross link sites on accounts either. It’s a new identity and keep it that way.
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DC Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Had a feeling I had to create an LLC, figured you’ve done it another way.
Thanks for the reply,
DC
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I second DC questions. Few pointer about how to effectively manage multiple adsense accounts will do a lot of good. But otherwise you are really going great.
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@ Carlo.
well MAR is a good spinner but you need to do a two and three tier spinning in order to achieve articles indexing by google. And personally it is manual spinning that works than automatically getting articles spinning from the software.
hi Ben. juicy post
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carlo Reply:
February 21st, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Hi, Zane! Apologies for my ignorance - what do you mean by two or three tier spinning? And also by manual spinning? - I read somewhere on Ben’s blog that basically the program is something in-between automated and manual spinning….
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Hi Ben, just thought I should let you know that it looks like Blogger unleashed has been hacked - I just clicked the link on your site to get one of those hacking messages. Computer blue screened a few mins later and I had to do a system restore to get it working - doing virus checks now.
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admin Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:50 pm
thanks alex, I’ll pull the link for now
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Good run down, Ben, thanks. In particular I hope people read and take to heart your comments on the work side of this process … as well as ticking to one method and making it work.
I’ve been ‘dabbling’ with making money for years now, and don’t make much … not because I don’t know how, but because I don’t really work at it. I can look at performance increases on certain projects and tell exactly when I did work and when I mostly goofed off. That’s the problem with 95% of the guys and gals who say “it doesn’t work”. “It” does work, but “they” mostly don’t.
Glad to hear you are making solid plans for the China tip. I was afraid when you went full time on this you would get yourself so emeshed in the process of making a living you would forget the rason for living … don’t ever do that….
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admin Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:46 pm
good to here from you Dave. I do notice that most people put half assed efforts at trying a few things then give up after a bit and assume it doesn’t work. Cough warrior forums. But yea, the reason it’s not working is because they don’t work, as you put it.
Yea, I’ve been working my ass off and I need to enjoy my time a bit. I’ll still be doing a bit of IM while traveling — mostly to see if I can and what it’s like — but I’m going to really “live.”
Cheers
Ben
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a better question is how many niches did you throw up in order to get those kinds or results in such a short time - that’s your real strength, the ability to churn out mountain loads of content in such a short period of time. MNF isn’t going to help anyone with that!
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admin Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:41 pm
No, it’s not the number of niche sites you throw up, it’s the amount of back linking you do and your keyword research. I learned this the hard way. I first thought that if I threw out as many sites as possible, I’d make fast money. Not true at all.
If your research is flawed, you can put up 200 sites and make a couple bucks a day. Good keyword research + backlinks is what’s important.
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MKT Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 5:14 pm
Totally agree on good keyword research and back links. It is not how many sites you have. I have one site that is making 25-40$ a day.
Don’t fall for the trap where people think 100 sites = 100×1$ = 100$ a day. It doesn’t work like that. The formula should be keywords instead of sites. You are ranking for keywords not websites.
The more sites you have the more time wasted maintaining them unless they are set and forget ones.
I am not sure how you maintain them Ben, but I presume a lot are set and forget.
By the way awesome photography!
MKT
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How many MNF sites did you put up in this time frame Ben? Were they new sites or pre-owned with existing authority?
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admin Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:38 pm
I put up a lot of sites per month…I aim to put about 150-200 sites up each month..But, if I put up a solid 120 a month, I’m happy. Keep in mind though, it’s NOT the number of sites you put up that make you the money, it’s 100% the backlinking. Each site you put up needs as many backlinks as you can throw at it, else they won’t rank and won’t make money. For the MNF, I had between 20-30 sites that earned me the coin.
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Alex Reply:
March 2nd, 2010 at 1:47 am
Hi Ben,
Lately I am trying to increase the amount of websites that I put online but I am noticing that even one website costs me a lot of time. I have to register the domain, install wordpress, than the plugins, write the articles and put them online. How the hell are you able to put 120 websites online and build links to them next to that? Do you outsource a lot? Do you have some advice on how to increase your output? And how many links do you throw at those mini niche websites?
Keep up your good work
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admin Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:00 am
Alex, this entire game is work. And I’ve been telling people from the start there is an insane amount of work required before you make decent coin. If you think putting up a single website takes a shitload of time, you are right. If that scares you, then niche marketing is not for you — cause that’s all you are going to be doing.
If you are asking how to increase output, then you aren’t working hard enough — guaranteed. I can put up lots of website and get links because this is all I do, 10-16 hours a day non stop. Outsourcing is a great way to increase your productivity, but I HIGHLY suggest you skip out on it until you find something specific that works for you. Once you figure your own formula for making money online and you get it down to a science, you are then in a position to outsource to increase your productivity. Most people new to this game who outsource never ever see the ROI they put into it though, which is why I don’t suggest you do until your are making a few thousand a month. Links vary from site to site…sometimes you need 50 to rank, sometimes 500 — completely niche dependent.
Cheers.
Good to hear from you Ben and a great picture as always. I look forward to the images from your Tibet trip.
I am still slowly progressing with my own money making activities. I am one of those people who keep jumping from idea to idea because I am a little impatient and get bored doing just one thing.
However I think I had a bit of a lightbulb moment this week with regard to keyword research and article writing. I will therefore be looking to finesse what I am currently doing and hope to see a real difference from the end of March onwards.
Here’s hoping.
TTC
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admin Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:36 pm
Good to see you still cracking at it Tip Top Cat! Keep on putting in the effort and the results will come! Definitely stick to one method — changing things before you find success rarely works — trust me, I’ve tried. Best of luck!
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Hi, could you test if it works with non-English keywords as most of my sites are in other lagnuages, thanks!
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Gorgeous photo, & great results from your new sites!
I was wondering if you’ve tried Market Samurai, and if so, how you think it compares to MNF? I’ve got MS & really like it, but was wondering if there would be anything to be gained from trying MNF too…
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Ben,
Great post as always and it’s good to see that you’re still alive and kicking
What part of China will you be going to? I’m moving to Zhongshan in the Guangdong province on March 20th.
Anyways, just had a quick question if you don’t mind. How many niche sites did you put up in that time frame to see $40+ days consistently in your adsense account?
I’ve been working on nothing but adsense sites for the last few months but I’m still hovering around the $30 a day mark. I’m not complaining but my earnings are at a standstill. Just wondering whether I should focus on pumping out more sites or if I should focus more on backlinks to my current sites.
Hann
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admin Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:09 pm
I’ll be going to Xinjiang/Tibet/Sichuan and maybe Yunnan. If I have more time I might visit the south east of china or do a week in taiwan.
The number of sites you need can vary. I know guys who do 200 bucks a day with 20-30 sites. 140 bucks a day with 200 sites. You can do 50 bucks a day with one sniper site. Those numbers came from like 15-30 sites (it varies). With mini sites, bank on .50 a site average per day — if you rank them.
If you are stuck at 30 a day here’s how what I’d do to double your income: double your sites :). You can optimize your sites for more money of course, but that depends on what they are already ranking. If say half your sites are not on the front page but close, then i’d say put the effort into backlinking those sites so they make the first page. you’ll see more income from this. If they are all on the front page, then you might be better off doubling your sites over trying to improve your first page position (if it looks like it will take a lot of work to go from say #8 to #3 for your sites).
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Hann Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 4:09 pm
Well if you’re around my area, we should definitely grab a beer or something
What you said definitely makes sense so I’m going to focus on building out more sites while I work on backlinking my older ones. So far, my backlinks only consist of ezinearticles, goarticles and backlink solutions and it seems to be working out okay for me.
I’m going to start building out a network also with spun content and I’m finally getting around to outsourcing a bit of content so I hope that works out also. Anyways, thanks so much for the tips!
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I tried MNF and hated it, the thing would error out on me all the time, and I found SOC to be fairly useless.
The domain checker is nice but not really the killer feature if you know how to do that in bulk on your own.
Anyway I can see why people like it but I like seeing the actual serps for the keywords that meet my chosen criteria and going on that instead of a magic SOC number. It’s crazy that so many SEO tools and advice are based on the amount of pages in Google that have a phrase on it…
Thanks for the update Ben, and looking forward to the new posts you just teased us about.
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admin Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 9:52 am
Hi Joe. SOC — Use it or don’t use it. I don’t know what criteria they use to calculate SOC (it’s a formula that’s around), but I don’t look at it personally. You certainly don’t need MNF — the Keyword Tool + SEO Firefox + linkdiagnosis work fine, just take longer.
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I started using MNF at the begining of January and I can definitely vouch for it as well. It’s great if you already know what you’re doing and want to streamline your keyword research and really take it to the next level.
Ben - can you give a ballpark on how many sites you set up to get these results?
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admin Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:34 pm
I think I had about 20 that produced this but they all ranked very high and optimized. However, my usual benchmark for sites is .50 a site per day. You’ll have a lot of sites that do more, but a lot of sites that do less. It averages out. Keep in mind that your sites all have to be ranking high (or a significant portion of them). Just churning out 50 - 100 sites that don’t rank first page won’t give you more than a couple bucks a day. The average person might find that it takes 100 or so sites to generate 40-50 bucks a day. Again, the real work is keyword research and busting your balls getting tons of backlinks. With this, 20 sites can make you 200 bucks a day. without it, 200 sites can only make you 10 bucks a day…
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Hey Ben,
You could have just asked me…:)
MicroNicheFinder is an excellent piece of software that I have been playing around with for about 8 months now. In fact, it is one of the only things I actually endorse, as far as clickbank products go.
BTW…where you been man? Hit me up on Gmail or we can do the buzz thing….
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Great post. I still get the majority of my income from active freelance writing as opposed to residual income, but the last couple weeks things have really clicked for me as far as keyword research and targeting easy to rank for keywords that really lets the residual income to build up quickly week by week. I’m still a long way from full time with the residual income, but I’ve seen as much growth in the last two weeks and the three months before it, so I just keep up the 12+ hour days and know I’ll get there. Thanks for sharing your insights on this blog - every time I start sluffing off I come here to give myself a kick in the pants.
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I have 10 micro niche sites in various niches and 6 out of it I have never done any backlinks for. They are making me pennies to a dollar day. I wonder how you can get backlinks other than article directories, web directories and forum or blog posting.
Is there any other method. Do let me know I would like to kick start.
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admin Reply:
February 26th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
Read my entire how to get backlinks post devoted to answering that question.
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I had been trying to get my adsense account approval but to no success. I had an account in the past but I need to change the currency and as per big G’s TOS, I had to close the account and reapply again.
I had used my niche sites to apply but cannot get it approved. Hope you can advise me on how to get a better chance of an adsense account approval, thanks so much in advance!
Houston
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admin Reply:
February 26th, 2010 at 9:48 am
If you apply for a new adsense...make sure you don’t use niche sites (or MFA sites) as your example site, however. You may get your application rejected. Use a general looking theme (if wordpress) or template — something that a regular non-internet market blogger would use.
You can, alternatively, create a new hubpage account, write a 600 word, informative hub, and use that to apply. It’s important that your english is good — if it sounds like it’s written by a foreigner (i.e. your english writing is not up to native level), you might get rejected too.
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Houston Reply:
February 26th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Thanks for the info, appreciated it very much! I had used some of my niche sites thou and got rejected like about 10 times right now, am I banned? Although I am allow to re-apply again stated in the email.
I always got this reason for rejection of application: - Unacceptable Site Content
I will go create a new hubpage account and write a 600 word informative hub and use that to apply again. One last question, how many 600 words hubs do I need to have before I apply for it again? Hear from you soon! Cheers!
Houston
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admin Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:11 am
You just need a single hub. If you are getting rejected for unacceptable site content, your writing is not good (english as a second language — if that’s the case, hire someone to write a few articles for you and use those) or your content is breaking the TOS — duplicate content or content that contains “bad” stuff like porn or is construed as non family friendly. You might also get that if your site is like an affiliate site or heavily internet market orientated (i.e. trying to hawk products or MFA content).
Dropped by and was happy to see that you too like MNF. I didn’t get that much response on my review of MNF versus Market Samurai (people hate to buy shit) but I found that I really liked both products. In the end I found MNF to do what I need to quickly target keywords. I’ve been using it to find the right keywords to build a targeted page(s). I will also use MS to do more in-depth SEO competition research too. I hated to spend the money but with the money back guarantee I figured I had nothing to lose. I needed to find a way to reduce the keyword research time. This tool works. They both work
- I bought the Mage. I wasn’t all that impressed. I got my money back with zero hassle. In the right hands it probably kicks ass. It wasn’t for me.
- Isn’t BCW fantastic? Frank created a little tool with that.
- I’m making some money with Hubpages and Ebay. Do you do much with that these days?
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admin Reply:
February 26th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Good to hear from you splork. Yea, I REALLY like MNF. It helps really speed up keyword research time. I have Market Samurai and I like it, but I haven’t used it for 6 months or so. However, for keyword competitive analysis, it’s pretty sweet — probably the best tool out there right now. I may fire it back up and test it out again. For finding actual keywords, MNF is better I find, though for backlink checking and stuff, MS is good. You can certainly use both.
For Mage, I honestly don’t know if it’s good or not. I bought it (and it was like almost 1k) and I like how easy you can pump out sites with the click of the button, but that whole finding aged domains with backlinks thing is a major pain in the ass. I’m almost positive that I can take my adsense mini site model and swap the adsense for ebay and make more money faster and cheaper than buying aged domains (and the 1k mage fee you pay for the product). Still, I can’t say anything until I try it, which I will soon. Haven’t played with it yet because I’m busy with a bunch of other projects.
I haven’t put too much work into hubpages — busy doing my own sites. Making new hubpage accounts is a bitch these days because it takes forever before they raise your author score so you can get Do Follow. I also don’t like linking hubes to your network sites because you leave a huge huge link to your network — great for other marketers trying to see what’s going on (and steal). My origional batch still make me decent money though — a couple thousand a month about. Going to do some link work on them to see if I can pump them back up — that will help.
Cheers mate
Ben
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Ben
how did you open your new adsense account?
I’ve heard that google has become pretty picky on new adsense publishers.
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admin Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:08 am
You know, I always get this question asked over and over, I think I’m just going to make a whole post about it and point people to it. read the comments here, I’ve outlined the process for someone else already.
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Houston Reply:
March 9th, 2010 at 8:08 pm
I had followed your instructions and outsourced my article writing for the hub article. 620words and quite expensive high quality article but still got rejected. One thing I notice is that my application get rejected fairly fast within 1 day, am I banned from adsense?
There are people online who can get me adsense account approval for a fee, do you think its worth to try it? Cause I am losing much time opportunity for the application of adsense. Please help.
Hope you can advise me further, thanks!
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arshu Reply:
March 24th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Hey Houston,
if you want some help regarding new adsense a/c
Signed up for forum here: http://www.forum.makemoneyonlinewithseo.com/
And PM me your email id
i will give you want out for your solution?
As always, great stuff Ben. As much as I learn and get inspired by following what you’re doing, I at least as excited to follow your “world traveler doing IM” efforts. Seeing the payoff for someone in not only dollars but in lifestyle as well is (will be) fantastic. AFter all, what’s the point of earning if you never enjoy it? Since I still have a L-O-N-G way to go to start enjoying it, I’ll live vicariously through your efforts. Keep it up man! :o)
While I’m here, one quick question about your MNF mini sites; what kind of keyword value are you usually targeting? (both search volume and $ value) Do you use anything like Court’s formula of $50/month?
thanks!
K-Man
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admin Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:06 am
Court’s formula is a good start for newbs and you can make money fine with it. However, I know a lot of his students make a few bucks (or nothing) and that’s it. The reason? Because they don’t put up enough websites to make decent coin AND/OR they don’t get enough backlinks. But the basic forumula he teaches if sound, it’s the actual work part that many people are failing to do. I think people assume that they can get away with 5 or 10 niche websites and make a full time income, but I’ve found that unless you are going after the “big dogs” in terms of keyword traffic, it’s not possible or not for a long while anyways.
I have my own formula I’ve put together though hundreds of hours of experimentation — it’s not court’s formula and it’s quite different in fact. As to what it is, it’s a secret
As far as keyword value and all that stuff, I’m keeping mum about that stuff. The onus is on you guys to test, experiment, and find out what works and what doesn’t. I just help point the general direction 
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K-Man Reply:
March 6th, 2010 at 7:41 am
aw, MAN!!!! OK,… fair enough.
I guess it’s good to know that, even if it is different, you do have a formula or system and it’s not just a “feeling” that you’ve developed over time. I guess I’ll just keep plugging away until I develop my own. Thanks
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hi ben, enjoy reading ur creativity in diversifying ur online income. i am right behind u in the challenges, infact i was looking for someone like you to benchmark with! i am done with 50 cb sniper sites and on to my next 100 sites..
wish to get ur email so that we can exchange ideas.
Thanks mate,
Ryans
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Hi Ben thanks for another great post
I just bought MNF and I agree its a great tool but seriously its not a one stop shop to get you millions its like a hammer for building a house.
I’m just wondering when you were using MNF have you ended up with resilts that were contradictory for example it said in MNF that the domain I’m after was taken however when I went to godaddy the domain was available, also the exact phrase count there were times when I knew there was a highly competitive word it still showed 0, thus …so i’m a bit weary and I have to double check some keywords.
One last thing do you have any advice or tips on getting website index fast like within hours or days ?
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admin Reply:
March 15th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
I haven’t found any contradictory results with domains — yet. For the other stuff, the keyword information matches the Google Keyword Tool, so no problem there.
For getting indexed, simply get some links. You can try Bookmarking Demon (though it’s pricey) which is good for quick indexing, or you can PING your sites. Another good way is to run RSS submissions on it (RSSBOT from icansoft is good software and cheap too). Or an ezine article or digg submission should do it.
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Ng@multieffectspedal Reply:
March 15th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Hi Ben thanks for quick reply , just did some digg submisions and working on doing somegood links… but I just found google already index my site ..so thank you for you help..
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First of all, thats a really nice picture.
I have been reading your posts, they are very informative and long! Great Job!
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SUP BEN, been Super Busy myself, hardly anytime for blogs or forums.
Yep, MNF is worth the money, one of the few I actually pd for.
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I have decided that I am going to invest some of the money that I make back into a keyword research tool but I am undecided if I want MNF or Market Samurai. Have you used MS at all? I have heard positive things about both of these softwares but just not sure which one to buy right now.
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admin Reply:
April 17th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
I own both, but it’s MNF that I actually use regularly. The only thing I regularly use with MS is the page rank checker and maybe the backlink checker if I’m doing some serious research on the comp. I suggest MNF hands down, though there is room for both if you use MS as a competition research tool.
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Hey Ben. Great work as always. I was debating to get MNF or not, but your review is very detailed and seems to have a lot of great features to make everything so much more efficient. I’m just curious how it compares to the new Google keyword tool (beta). I just checked it out and it is SO MUCH BETTER than the original version. Much faster and it looks to have similar features to MNF. What do you think?
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admin Reply:
April 21st, 2010 at 10:49 am
New keyword tool offers a LOT more new features. I like the category searchs, ad impressions, CTR of keywords, competition shown, ability to filter search by CPC and searches, and ability to click on keyword to launch a google search. It basically offers a lot (and in many cases, more features) than MNF has.
I expect the next version of MNF will incorporate all these new features, considering MNF is built on the keyword tool.
However, MNF is still better in my opinion. Why? It tells you if the exact domains for the keyword are available. This gives it a big win.
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can we see a post on managing your time? outsourcing? or just any sort of post on seo?
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ahh man…i was on the fence about mnf…i have just embarked on my adsense journey…was gonna use the xfactor method and he recommended mnf…but i read ur other post about those type of sites being dead (read that elsewhere as well) so i guess i will save my 97 bux and stick to cpa…nice blog tho
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Reading your more recent posts, it seems that you use Market Samurai. Do you also use Micro Niche Finder? Do you feel that one is superior to the other? Are they redundant tools, or do they complement one another? If they complement each other, do they do so to the degree that it is worth the purchase of both? Which would you suggest if you could only buy one?
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